--- title: Getting away with a lie three times does not make it safe; it only m… — Excuses and the lies that grow · tree and pragmatics description: Getting away with a lie three times does not make it safe; it only makes the lie bigger when it comes out, and by then the grown-ups wonder about all the other times too. Who acts: Getting, lie, grown ups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Getting, lie, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:5 # text = Getting away with a lie three times does not make it safe; it only makes the lie bigger when it comes out, and by then the grown-ups wonder about all the other times too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 wonder wonder VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 33 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get away** | gerund | | | | | time | with a lie; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Getting | lie | | | | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **make** | present | lie | the lie | | | | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material lie=Product | | 4 | **come out** | present | lie | | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | the grown ups | | | | time | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/4/) - next →: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/)